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High-energy, informative and hard-hitting, Breakfast Beat packs a mean punch. This show is a current affairs and actuality show, which focuses mainly on issues that are of concern to the community that Voice of the Cape serves. The show feature interviews with prominent politicians, community activists, religious leaders, academic experts and ordinary people. Presenters Sabera, Goolam and producer Loushe make up this dynamic team – all very different personalities that make for interesting conversation, heated debates and plenty of laughs and tears. This show is listener driven and the team loves engaging with callers – no topic is off-bounds! We serve you breakfast every morning Monday to Friday from 6.30am to 9am.
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Chaos erupts in Parkwood as Law Enforcement officers remove illegally erected structures

Chaos erupted in Parkwood yesterday after a community leader was shot in face by Law Enforcement officers who entered the area to remove illegally erected temporary structures. Dominique Booysen, was shot with a rubber bullet only centimetres from his eye. According to the Parkwood Backyard dweller association, Law Enforcement officers…
24 May 2018 6 min

Feedback on ANC Land Summit

The ANC has rejected claims that its land reform programme is only meant to lure voters for next year’s elections. This follows its consultative summit over the weekend which focused on the expropriation of land without compensation and recommendations for the amendments of section 25 of the SA Constitution. DT…
23 May 2018 11 min

Department Of Human Settlements meet leadership of Parkwood community

Yesterday MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela, from the Western Cape Human Settlements met with the leadership of Parkwood. This after residents from the area took to the street over the weekend to protest for land and housing. Joining us online is Minister Bonginkosi Madikizela and Dominique Booysen
23 May 2018 11 min

Bo-Kaap residents protest

A protest broke out on the corner of Wale and Buitengracht street in Bo Kaap area yesterday evening. About 30 people took part in the protest, burning tyres. The protestors are said to be mostly youth. They say they have a range of grievances that have been building up for…
22 May 2018 14 min

Parkwood violence

The situation in Parkwood intensified yesterday morning after City officials came to remove temporary structures, which were symbolically erected on a piece of land on Prince George Drive. Residents on Saturday confirmed that they would dismantle the structures once they had handed over a memorandum of demands to the local…
21 May 2018 14 min

MJC visits Imam Hussein (AS) mosque in Durban

While the leadership of the Muslim Judicial Council was lauded for its decision to visit the Imam Hussein (AS) mosque in Verulam in Durban on Monday, there is still much commentary on social media on how the MJC deals with the issues of sectarianism. Some criticism has been levelled at…
18 May 2018 9 min

ISLAMIC RELIEF RESPONDS TO GAZA MEDICAL NEEDS

Now following the recent attacks by Israeli forces killing more than 50 Palestinians and critically injuring nearly 2800 people in Gaza. There has been huge public outcry against the actions of the Israeli government This comes after Palestinians participated in a series of protest under the banner of the Great…
18 May 2018 10 min

Vygrond Protests

The protest in Vrygrond turned violent this week after community members vandalized a bottle store on Baden Powell Drive. Breakfast Beat spoke to Ward Councillors and a community leader.
16 May 2018 15 min

SAMNET on Ottawa mosque attack

The past few days have been dramatic for residents of Verulam in KwaZulu-Natal. After a unidentified individuals attacked worshipers including the Moulana of the Imam Husain mosque In the latest event which occurred over the weekend, The Hawks confirmed that the device found by one of the musalless was in…
15 May 2018 14 min

Feedback Ceremonial pickets for land by Parkwood community

Members of the Parkwood community gathered at the Community Hall in the area over the weekend to picket for land and housing. In a ceremonial taking residents and leadership from the community cordoned off a designated piece of land to signify the plight of people who have been on the…
14 May 2018 10 min

Taxi guard video project offering pensioners free taxi rides goes viral

A recent video post of a taxi guard calling on other taxi business to join him in his quest to provide free taxi rides to pensioners has since gone viral. Yaseen Abrahams, a taxi guard from Bonteheuwel, is seeking the assistance of 30 taxi drivers to join a pilot project…
10 May 2018 7 min

Cape Town’s new acting mayor- Ian Neilson

We continue with the discussion of the DA recent decision to terminate the membership Patricia de Lille. And speak to the newly appoints acting mayor‚ Ian Neilson who will be taking over the duties of mayor of Cape Town
10 May 2018 10 min

Residents form Egoli Informal Settlement want access to land and housing

In recent weeks we have been extensively covering the public protest for land by residents from the Siqalo Informal Settlement. Following violence that erupted in the area last week We also highlighted how government responded to the community with MEC for Housing Bonginkosi Madikizela recently announcing plans to relocate residents…
9 May 2018 18 min

Rights of public engaged in protest

Last week tension were high in Mitchells Plain after community members from the area gathered on the corner of Highlands and Jakes Gerwel Drive to speak out against the recent protest by Siqalo residents. This after Chaos erupted last week when protesters barricaded roads, damaged property and set a truck…
8 May 2018 11 min

Mitchells Plain resident shot at Siqalo protest still in hospital

Over the weekend, we were contacted by Raafiqah Ganger, a relative of one of the bystanders/protestors in Mitchells Plain who was shot during last weeks protest. As we know, SAPS public order police tried to disperse the crowd, with reports of tear gas and live round being fired. Now one…
8 May 2018 7 min
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